Talk:Gothenburg

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I would like to see the source of the claim that 60% of all Swedes would like to live in Gothenburg. How credible is the source - is it a simple online poll? If so I don't think it belongs here. /Jake73

An aspect of using restaurants in Gothenburg I found disturbing was the fact that we were not allowed in many of them, unless we handed over our jackets. When we came out these were handed back to us with a request for 15 Krona per person. We actually walked out without paying. After a couple of days spent in othe Swedish Cities in which this did not occur. We returned to Gothenburg.

We tried again. Several refused us entry because we failed to hand over our outer garments. We did later find a excellent place to enjoy a good meal where this did not occur. What happens in the summer, when outer garments would not be worn I wonder, are customers required to start undressing to hand over other garments?!

This is common practice in most Scandinavian nightclubs/fancy restaurants and should probably be noted in the main country page. (WT-en) Jpatokal 20:50, 12 March 2006 (EST)

I'm living in Gothenburg now. There is an idea, maybe just a rumor, that the coat check business is run by the Hell's Angels, or Banditos, the orginized crime groups here in Sweden. The idea is that they intimidate the bar owners into letting them run the coat check bussiness, and they don't give the bar a cut.

That might have happened in some cases, but not as a universal practice. The rumor has spread through crime fiction. /Yvwv (talk) 00:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding last change (in splurge) and the rollback. I can see why linking might be a problem, but in what way is mentioning Apple's recommendation different from mentioning Guide Rouge Stars?

NPOV[edit]

Is this statement not a bit non-NPOV: "Gothenburg has a reputation of being a friendly place, even more welcoming than the Swedish capital."?

This should be rephrased, it sounds like it was written by a lokal and does not meet wiki-quality.

There is no requirement for a NPOV, only that editors be fair. However, if as a wikivoyager is sounds like it is adding no value to the desination article, feel free to plunge forward and fix it. --(WT-en) Inas 19:39, 5 February 2009 (EST)

Working-class history[edit]

I would say that traditionally G.has been a liberal, shipping and business oriented city. Many of the institutions in G. have an origin of private donations e.g. museums, hospitals, and Chalmers university of technology. But this is not a history furnished in the long lived labour rule. The working-class culture I would now regard as evident. /Living in G.

Cope[edit]

I have moved the religious services section from "Stay safe" to "Cope" as this is more in line with the norm for other articles.

(WT-en) Globentrekker 17:18, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

Districts?[edit]

Gothenburg is big enough for districts. Where should the borders be drawn? A suggestion:

What do you think? /Yvwv (talk) 20:36, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, just getting in on this. I think it sounds good to divide it, although it will be quite some work to fill out all the districts I think. I'm not native of the city, just live here so I don't know it all that well. Where should the border between Inner G. and Southern and Western G. be drawn you think? I also think that a district for the archipelago would be great, since its actually one of the better attractions of the city, what do you think? Egestrand (talk) 01:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The border of Linné to the South is at Slottskogsvallen, that is: Högsbo is considered to be out of bounds.
Southern Archipelago sounds great, that is a place that could be considered a separate destination. We would need one for Northern archipelago too, even though I personally don´t mind putting them together, sometimes people here a bit strict on the administrative borders and Northern archipelago is in another kommun./Johan Jönsson (talk) 21:35, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure if Gothenburg needs to be districtified now. Sure, it's a fairly large city but this is not the reason why city articles are split into districts. It's because there are "too many" sights and restaurants and hotels and so on for one single article — for cases when the article gets so long that it's unwieldy. As for now Gothenburg does not have that "problem". Also, as Egestrand said above, there might be difficulties finding stuff to fill those districts with and this is another sign that districtification isn't necessary. As a side note, the official district division is often useful to some extent but we very often need to merge them (e.g. bedroom suburbs seldom have much of anything of interest for visitors). ϒpsilon (talk) 17:22, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Being a native I doubt districts are needed. However the proposal as such makes sense. V29 (talk) 22:22, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Seeing the discussion dead for 10 months, I will remove the banner advising of it for now. PrinceGloria (talk) 08:22, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative banner for this article?[edit]

In the Hebrew Wikivoyage we are currently using this banner instead of the one which is currently used here. Do you think too that this banner would would better than the existing one? ויקיג'אנקי (talk) 06:59, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think so, marginally, because this new banner is a bigger panorama with a nicer sky and more greenery. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:51, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Someone should take another shoot from Ramberget with even more of a panoramoic view V29 (talk) 22:18, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Here is another alternative banner. What do you say? /Yvwv (talk) 16:52, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The original banner is much nicer to me and more reminiscent how Gothenburg really feels. PrinceGloria (talk) 17:35, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation needed?[edit]

w:Gothenburg, Nebraska, Gothenburg Archipelago, maybe others. See w:Gothenburg (disambiguation) Pashley (talk) 23:21, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The city in Sweden is much more famous than the town in Nebraska or the archipelago, so I think it should stay at this title. Since we don't have an article about the town in Nebraska, I'm not sure we need a disambiguation page. Maybe it would be worth adding a hatnote for the archipelago, I don't know. —Granger (talk · contribs) 03:50, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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